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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
Covering Saad.

A writer in our Or Country Home,
writing about the advantages of covering
seed, says: My plan is to always cover seed
of all kinds whether large or small; of
course very fine seed needs only light COW
ering, and the soil should be very fine, yet
always considered that / secured better
plants by marking out shallow furrow and
sowing the seed in it and then covering
lightly. Coarse, heavy seed need and re-
qulre deeper covering than fine, light seed.
While no rule can be given that under all
circumstances and conditions may be con-
sldered the best, yet generally you can be
safe if you will regulate the depth of plant
ing and covering by the size of the seed.
For fine seed like celery shallow mark is
made and the seed sprinkled in it as evenly
as possible, and then the soil sprinlSled over
the seed and lightly pressed down. When
seed are planted very near the surface, as
rule, the surest plan to secure a good ger
mination is to press the soil down upon the
seed after covering, and especially if the soil
Is warm and inclined to dry out. A certain
degree of moisture and contact with the soil
Is essential to secure a good termination,
and find that these conditions can be best
secured by taking pains to.cover lightly.
Generally early planted seeds should be COW
cred lighter than if the same seeds were
planted three or four weeks later, after the
soil becomes warmer and often dryer; heat
is almost as essential as moisture-that is, to
certain extent, and if planted too deep
when the soil is wet and cold they will either
lie there until the soil is sufficiently warm
to induce termination or they will rot. |
never could see any good economy in having
the seed lie in the ground under unfavora-
BILE conditions and failing togerminate, even
though they do finally. l never considered
that the plants were as vigorous as if an
earlier termination had been secured For
this reason find it the safest and best to
make all the conditions as favorable for ger
mination as possible.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
RAILROAD bonds.

The undersigned offers for sale at par ex-July
Coupon $4,000 Of the MARIETTA AND
NORTH GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY'S
FIRST MORTGAGE 8 PER CENT. FIFTY
YEAR BONDS, in multiples of $1,000 10 suit
buyers.
THESE bonds can be safely taken by inves.
i tors as q reliable per cent. security, which
will, In all probability advance TO ID points
above par within the next three or four years,
as this road will traverse a country unsurpassed
for mineral wealth. for climate, for scenery, for
agricultural purposes, and for attractiyeness to
the settler
The company has mortgaged It's franchise and
entire line of railroad built and TO be built, and
all It's other property, to the Boston Safe Deposit
and Trust Company to secure its issue of 50-year
per cent. bonds These bonds will be issued at
the rate Of about ST., 900 per mile, on line ex-
tending from Atlanta, Ga, 20 Knoxville, Tenn.
A sinking fund is provided for their redemption.
II will be one of the best paying roads in the
South II will be of standard gauge and will
develop q region of country extending from
Middle Georgia, through North Carolina TO
Knoxville. Tenn, where IL will connect with
lines leading to Cincinnati, Louisville, 81. Louis
and Pittsburg,
Theyoad is now completed 10 Murphy, ~ G.,
aud Bto be pushed on TO Knoxville as fast as
the nature Of the country will permit The high
financial standing and energy Of the men prln-
cipally interested In IL sufficiently guarantees its
early completion.
Further information will be furnished upon
application 10 a. l.. HARTRIDGE, Savannah,
Ga, or TO BOODY, MCCLELLAN q CO, 81
Broadway, New York.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
About Weeds.

A word about weeds may not be without
interest at this season of the year. No one,
says the New York Star, can afford, after
having prepared his land and made it rich
with valuable manures, to then neglect it to
such an extent as TO allow the worthless
weeds to get possession, or even to appro-
pirate to their own support any considerable
part of the outlay which has thus been
made. 1t should at all times be borne in
mind that whatever the weeds are allowed
to appropriate TO their own use may inst as
well be directed to the production of desira-
bic plants instead. We know from expert
ence that it is a very easy matter to talk
about the destruction of weeds. But there
are times when the weather will not admit
of their being so easily destroyed-the
ground too wet to work, or if stirred the
weeds will not be killed; and there are
times, too, when other matters are waiting
TO be attended to as well as the weeds. Yet
the rule of action must be clean culture, and
it must be lived up TO or to a certainty the
weeds will get ahead. Early and often
should be the watchword from the start. 1t
is far less work to kill the weeds while they
are just starting to grow than to wait until
they have become well rooted. In the corn
2eid this work can nearly all be done with
horse power, although the hand hoe may be
profitably used occasionally in cleaning out
the hills. But the horse and cultivator or
double shovel must be relied on principally
to do the work. With the rows straight
and equi-distant both ways-as they always
should be-the cultivator or double shovel
can be adjusted as to run close up to the
young plants, with no danger of covering
any of them up. 1t is vastly cheaper and
more expeditions to do the work in this way
than with hoes. Nor need the cultivation
be very deep if the land was properly pre-
pared, surface working being now what is
mostly wanted, and killing the weeds the
principal object, the time for deep working
before the corn was planted. The cultivator
or double shovel should be kept running,
however, until the corn is large enough to
shade the ground, when there need be no
further fear of the weeds. ..
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
A Bath for Fowls.

Fowls are greatly troubled with lice and
many poultry raisers furnish a dust bath for
Them as it helps them to get rid of the pests.
The best bath for fowls, however, and one
which they should have free access to, is an
ash bath 1t far excels the dust bath, al
though the dust bath is used by nearly all
successful poulterers. Take an old dish pan,
or some vessel that is wide and shallow, fill
it with dry, fresh wood ashes, and the chicks
will be in before you can get out of the poul-
try house. We have seen this used and have
never found lice where it is used constantly
The ashes get mixed through the feathers
and the lice cannot long flourish in this CON
dition. The old way was to keep the ducks,
hens, turkeys, geese and guineas together,
when battles and combats were the result,
the best quarters being an A-shaped log
house, but at the present day we separate
them and treat them as so much stock on
the farm, from which a certain amount of
profit is expected, and the better the treat
ment the larger the profit.
Poultry houses should be whitewashed,
inside and out, two or three times year.
Into the whitewash for the inside of the
house put a little glue or teacup of soft
boiled rice to a pail of whitewash, and also
add ten or twenty drops of crude carbolic
acid as a safeguard against vermin.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
Household.

BATTER PUDDING.-Mix smoothly one
tablespoonful each Of -four and sugar, with
a pint Of milk and pinch Of salt Pour il
into well-buttered piedish and leave 1T in a
slow oven till set II must not boil.
PEARL BARLEY PUDDING. Simmer a
tablespoonful of pearl barley till thoroughly
swelled, in milk. Lay it in piedish, pour
in the milk and little sugar; place some
tiny pieces of dripping well clarified on the
top and bake.
AMoURETTEN. Steep some neatly shaped
slices of bread, without crust, in a custard
of egg. milk and a little sugar, well beaten
together. Fry golden brown and. serve
very hot, with squeeze Of lemon and sitted
sugar over them.
TAPIocA AND APPLEs-Core the apples
and stew them, well covered with water,
either whole or in quarters, with sugar TO
taste, till tender. Boil three ounces or four
ounces of tapioca till liquid, pour it on the
apples and bake half an hour. Serve with
a Jug of milk.
CUP PUDDING. -Mix carefully one cup
each of -four ground rice, finely chopped
suet. milk and raisins, with teaspoontul OF
carbonate Of soda, the same Of ground gin
ger If liked, and a tablespoonful Of vine
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
Manure and CRANE Rot

Mr.. w. c. Steele, of Switzerland, Fla. in
~ interesting communication to the Florida
Dispatch says that heavy manuring is very
commonly, but very unjustly, believed to
be prolific cause of grape rot. Seventeen
years CT experience in grape growing and
observation of others vineyards convinces
him that fertilizing has anything to do with
the rot. At time in Northern Indiana
when vineyards were being abandoned on
account of the ravages of this disease, those
which had not received an ounce of fertilizer
of any kind for years, suffered quite as Sc
verely as those which had received heavy
applications of slaughter-house manure. The
report of the Department of Agriculture on
Fungus Diseases of the Grape does not charge
that the true rot, the BLACK rot, is due to
over-fertiliZing, but rather to warm, wet
weather and it is stated that its ravages are
entirely stopped by a prolonged drouth
Bagging the punches before the berries are
half grown is found to be an almost certain
specific for this disease, By the way, grape
growers are becoming more and more unani-
nous in the opinion that bagging grapes
pays
is said to have tendency to increase one
form of grape mildew, this mildew destroys
the fruit, though not true rot. But so far
rs know, 10 one recommends the use of
fresh stable manure in large quantities. 1t
should never be used, in the vineyard or
garden, until thoroughly deeomposed. 1t is
doubtful if any quantity of bone meal and
potash, which could be used safely, that is
without endangering the life of the vines,
would injure the crop of fruit. The exces-
sive use Of cotton seed meal or anything
containing large percentage of ammonia
is not to be recommended on fruiting vines
A reasonable quantity of ammoniated fer
tilizers is needed to maintain vigorous
growth while bearing large crops of fruit
Summer pruning is Objectionable, espe-
cialy in hot climate. By all means thin
out the punches and do not allow the vines
to overbear. IT the grapes are bagged they
do not need the shade of the leaves so much
as those that are not thus protected, but the
vines are not likely to have too many leaves
for health, and if the sun can be kept from
shining upon the bags so much the better
Lime and sulphate of copper has been
found, when syringed over grapes, a perfect
cure for mildew. The solution is thus pre-
pared: From thirty to fifty pounds of lime
and sulphate; each is dissolved IN barrel
containing about one hundred gallons of
water. The operator dips small heath
broom in the liquid and walking backwards
sprinkles the vines. About fourteen quarts
to one thousand vines, the expense being a
little over S. an acre.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
An Early Peach,

Mr.. James T. DePasS, in letter to the
Florida Dispatch, speaks rather enthusias-
tically of new peach which he has and
which ripens in the latter part of May. He
says that it is unlike either the Peen-to or
the Honey peach This is his description of
it: Appearance, good; size, medium; shape,
oblong; both ends somewhat fattened
color, dull red with occasional tinges of pale
yellow; freestone; flesh, whitish green with
flashes of red, coarse grained, fibrous, ten
der and melting; sweet and rich; quality,
good. The fruit had strong peach aroma
wanting in the Peen-to and Honey, and bore
no resemblance to either of these types.
Although Mr.. DE Pass does not mention the
name, it is evidently, says the Dispatch, a
Freestone Indian Blood. Its better quality
than is usual with this class, and if it prove
as early every year, and adapted to this
State it will be decided acquisition.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
gar. Boil four hours and serve with sweet
sauce: but it is very GOOD Mithnnt

gar. Boil four hours and serve with sweet
sauce; but it is very good without
PEACH CoBLER. Make crust for bis
cult, line pan or pudding dish with the
crust; mix three tablespoonfuls -four, two
of sugar and sprinkle over the crust; then
peel sufficient peaches to fill your dish,
leaving them whole; sprinkle over them one
cup sugar; wet the edges with q little water
and flour; put on the upper crust, making
two incisiops in same; bake half an hour.
To be eaten with sweet sauce.
PUMPKIN PIE-Take large sized pump
kin, firm, of deep color, boil just as you
would potatoes with skins on; when thor
oughly cooked pass through colander
sieve; take one cup brown sugar, one cup
molasses; mix well together; beat the whites
and the yolkS of four eggs well and mix with
the pumpkin, then add the sugar and mo-
lasses, pinch of salt, four teaspoonfuls
good ginger, one teaspoonful ground CHINA
mon; take one cupof milk; mix all together.
This is for six good sized pies. For smaller
pumpkins add less milk and spices. Bake in
a deep plate lined with pastry.
Squash pie is made the same way.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
Popular Science.

Turpentine, in doses of twenty or thirty
mininis, will not only remove headache, but
produce, in wonderful manner, soothing
influence
A San Francisco concern is making hand
some pressed bricks out of coal ashes and
cinders. These bricks have stood the sever
est tests for strength, and are made without
baking or burning.
M. Peyraud considers one of the bes +
means OF determining the death of an in
dividual to be cauterization by Vienna
paste. If the eschar forms slowly and is of
yellow color, or transparent, death may
be positively declared, while if it be red,
brown or black life still exists.
Mildew spots may he removed by mix.
ture of soft soap, boiled starch, salt and
lemon juice. Apply to the spots and bleach
in the sun four hours. Ii the spots be old
enough to resist this treatment rub yellow
soap on both sides Of the article, then apply
thick starch made with cold water and hang
out in the sun.
DR.. C. C. Stockard, of Columbus, Miss.
referring to communication of DR.. Boyd
concerning the insolubility of gelatine-
coated quinine pills pass from the bowels
undigeSted, even where there was no gastric
inflammation. He has never known this
to occur with freshly filled gelatne
capsules, nor with gelatine-coated pills, eX-
cept those OF qulnlne. The latter he re-
CARDS as so unreliable that he never pre-
scribes them.
1t has been discovered thatkain is an
efficient antidote TO opium. TsA pfiict this
without subsequent injury it SslIggested
that winding Irvine several timA tightly
around the last phalanx of the II Yer and
tying it will give pain not unlike a >pn on
each finger Rouse the patient occae \Glly
to take some water If possible XIV the
strings on until the patient conf plain on in
in one of the fngers-fnd out which One,
remove that string, and 80 on until the last
one shall be off, and you viii have saved u
human life. Very few persons need to die
from even a very large dose of opium if seen
in time to apply the requisite pain to coun-
teract il.
At a recent meeting of the Medical
Society of Berlin DIR. Dewin made a COM
munication on the physiological effects of
resinous extract prepared from kava Piper
methysticum), to which he attributes
local action similar TO that of cocaine.
When placed on the tongue it produces a
sensation of heat, which Is soon followed by
anesthesia Applied to the eye it at first
causes smarting, with an abundant flow Of
tears; this is followed by complete and last
ing ana,sthesla Of the coI1ea and conjunc-
tive Simultaneous injections produced in
sensibility Of the neighboring tissues without
setting up Inflammation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
Rust ON Pears.

The rust Oh pears always shows itself early
in the season. 1t first appears as small
brownish spots and these gradually enlarge,
and if numerous may nearly cover the sur
face of the fruit. The rust sometimes reaches
its maturity and partially or wholly dies be-
fore the fruit is fully grown; in such cases
it is cast off, the spot becomes more or less
perfectly healed and the appearance known
as "scab" is the result. In either case the
fruit is injured in market value, and if the
attack is severe is rendered almost worth
less. The cause of the injury is fungus,
FuStclddtunl pyrinuna, which grows just
beneath the skin and pushes its fruiting
threads out into the air, producing myriads
of spores for its further propagation. The
rust on the leaves of the pear is due to the
same fungus, and to keep it from the fruit,
therefore, will necessitate keeping the foliage
free also.
The only preventive or remedy that seems
feasible and economical is some application
to the young leaves and fruit that will pre-
vent the fungus from getting foothold.
The fungicide in solution should be sprayed
upon the trees several times from the burst
ing of the buds until June, especially just
after rains. What is best touse yet remains
to be determined. Mr.. Golf, of the New
York Experiment Station, found much
benefit from hyposulphite of soda at the
rate of one pound to ten gallons Of water
Sulphide Of potassa will, no doubt, also
prove valuable If the trees are sprayed
with Paris green the fungicide may be added
and applied at the same time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
Effect of Clover on Soil.

One Of tho most remarkable studies in
practical farming, says well-known agri-
cultural writer, is the wonderful recupera-
tive and restorativeeffects of clover on land.
This effect can hardly be exaggerated. 1t
is mystery to many farmers how crop
grown OH a soil can impart to it more than
IL takes from it. Perhaps it will help them
to understand this to remind them but a
small portion of theplant comes from the
soil. In ton Of dry clover hay chemists
tell us there are but from 106 to 1874 pounds
of organic matter (by which they mean that
which comes from the soiD, and all the re-
mainder is inorganic or matter that has
come from the atmosphere, Another fact
which helps explain how green manuring
helps the soil is that in most soils there is
enough plant food to grow hundreds of crops
and often thousands, and much OF this is
In condition in which IL is not readily
available for the plant. One Of our best
modern writers on agricultural chemistry
says: $50 great is the wealth of fertility
stored in the soil that if the nitrogen, phos-
phoric acid and potash contained in the
upper twelve inches OF. a good soil were val
ued at the prices charged for them in our
commercial fertilizers, farm OF l6O acres
would be worth about half a million dol
lars"
This must be constantly borne in mind:
The question we are about to solve in cult.
waiting our farms is not when will the soil
become perfectly exhausteda but how can
we manage it TO get profitable crops at the
least expense now, Prof Roberts, of the
New York Experiment Station, found that
field of clover which yielded 1895 pounds
Of cured hay had 4,s93 pounds OF dried
roots, or nearly 1000 pounds more Of roots
than Of top.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
LEGAL NOTICES.

CEORGIA, CHATHAM County, Notice is
VI hereby given that I have made applica-
ton to the Court OF Ordinary for Chatham
county for order TO sell 1--WE shares Of the capt
tai stock OF the Central Railroad aud Banking
Company Of Georgia, belonging 10 HENRY N.
DRAisE, JR., a minor, for the maintenance and
education OF said minor, and that said order
viii he granted at the JULY TERM, 1881, Of
said court unless objections are filed. W.
HENRY NJ. DRANE, Guardian.
IuxE 4, 1857.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
Phillips, pIgestiple Cocoa

Produces feeling Of lightness and buoyancy, as
against that Of weight, headache and depres-
sion, 50 common with the ordinary cocoa. II is
nourishing to high degree, easily digested and
delicious TO the taste. Your druggist and grocer
have II.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

The Field, Farm and Garden.
We solicit articles for this department.
The name Of the writer should accompany
the letter OF article, not necessarily for pub
hcation, but as an evidence Of good faith
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
LEGAL SALES.
CITY MARsHAL's SALE.

CITY MARSHAL'S SALE.
CRY MARsHAL's OFFICE,
SAVANNAH, June Z. 1887 (
I NDER AND BY VIRTUE OF special tax
- execution placed in my hands by c. s.
HARll EE City Treasurer, have levied on, and
VIII sell in accordance with law, on the FIRST
TUESDAY IN JULY, 1887 between the legal
hours OF sale before the Court House door. in
the city Of Savannah, Chatham county, Geor.
qua, me following property, to-wit:
One Pool Table, Cues and Balls levied on as
the property of j. l.. MURPHY,
Purchasers paying for titles.
ROBERT j. WADE,
City Marshal.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
Commissioners Sale for Partition
C. Il. DORSETT, AustiOnssr

Under and by virtue Of an order granted by tbs
Honorable Superior Court Of Chatham county,
In the case OF SARAH A. WALTON versus
HETTY IT, WHALEY and the MERCHANTS
AND MECHANICS LOAN ASSOCIATION,
petition for partition, we win SELL before the
Court House door in Savannah, during the
legal hours OF sale, on TUESDAY, JULY >.
1857,
An OF that certain portion Of land and tho
tenements thereon. known as subdivisions Nos.
and Of LOT Number 10 Trustees Garden, hav-
ing a front on Reynoids street Of seventy seven
feet for subdivision No /, and OF sixty tive feet
- - G H poRsETT,
J,L.WHArLET.
II II MIL AVIS
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Lot No. I, . qrs.; lot No. B. 2 grs.; lot No. 5, 2
qrs; lot No. -, 2 qTs.; lot No. "a, qrs; lot No
a. 2 qiss lot No. 50. grs.; lot No 2, 2 qrs.; lot
No t. . qrs.. lot No g, z qrs. lot No 80, . qrs. (:
lot No. H. qrs; lot No, ~, 2 qrs.; lot No 80, 4
qrs,
All persons having interest in the above lots
are hereby notified that II the amounts now
due are not paid 10 the City Treasurer on Or
before the 2lst instant / viii on the morning Of
the I'D inst. proceed 10 re-enter according 10
law. ROBERT j, WADE
llnl
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DON'T FAIL to 20 70 NEIDLINoER & RA.
~ BUNS for bargains IN Trunks, satchels,
Harness and Garden Hose.
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Middle one-t third lot No 2, 2 qrs lot No. 10,
qrs. west one-h half lot No. 5, 2qrs
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South one-half lot No. 4, qrs.; west one-halI
lot No. z, 2 qrs. lot No. 5, qrs. northwest one
fourth lot No. 10, qrs.; west one-haf lot No. 35
qrs lot No 3, 2 qrs; south two-thjrds lot No
8, = qrs east part lot No. 10, 2 qrs; west ono
half lot No. 80, 2 prs. east onehaf lot No %, !
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sTRAYED.

COW AND CALF rSTRA YED--Cow mouse
~ color, calf dark brown, Z months old. A
liberal reward If returned to w. ORR, Abercorn
and New Houston.
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DIANOS moved with care and safety on our
i new truck; terms liberal. DAVIS BROS,
AZ and a Bull street.